Saturday, 9 August 2014

Great Unreleased Doctor Who Merchandise of the 20th Century - part seven

KELLOGG'S SMOKEY BACON FLAVOURED PORKY POPSTest launched in certain areas of England including Tyneside and the West Midlands - c1966price: unknown but it was in old moneySomeone at Kellogg's had a real wheeze. How about a savoury breakfast cereal to go with all those high sugar ones like Ricicles, Coco Pops and Sugar Stars. They came up with PORKY POPS. Just add milk. Essentially, they were balls of pork scratching flavoured with that artificial bacon flavour that's never been within winking distance of a pig - unlike the pork rind. Needless to say, the product was not very popular with consumers and had to be withdrawn after an incident in a Wolverhampton motel resulted in the hospitalisation of several guests with suspected food poisoning. The manufacturers insisted it was curdled milk however, the product was hastily withdrawn from what few supermarket shelves it inhabited and was quietly forgotten.I still have a Slyther badge and a dependence on regular penicillin shots to remind me of those wonderful tasty breakfasts of my youth,

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I am a 53 year old former teenager based in the city of Derby. I have been a part of Dr WHO fandom since the late 70s and especially love it when young teenage fans correct the intentional errors in my artwork or reply to my posts with a quote from City of Death or any of the other 600 odd classic series episodes (but especially City of Death). I don't do requests... unless they are actually imaginative and funny. And certainly don't do them if the magic word "please" isn't included. I am single and don't even own a cat I can tweet pictures of. Apart from that, I'm actually quite friendly. Mostly.